Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
~Psalm 31:3

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

You Don't Want To See Me When I'm Angry

Listening to people talk on mobile phones on the train may be the thing that in the end will be my great undoing. I can feel it approaching.

Here are two of my most well-loved, and most frequently heard phone conversations-

1. Hello? I'm on the train. I'm on the train. I'm on the train! On the train!! The train!!!! Train!!! What? No, the train. TRAIN!!!

So you're on the train, you say?

2. Yeah, so anyway, I was like OMG are you serious and she was.. oh, I'm about to go through a tunnel so I might cut out... hello? Are you still there? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Oh they've gone.

Maybe Australia should adopt the same policy that Japan has - of producing "Good Manners on Trains" posters. Here is a link to one about mobile phones: http://scope.metrocf.or.jp/gallery/mp_gr_maru_06_b.html

And here are some others:http://scope.metrocf.or.jp/gallery/mp_gallery2008.html

However, despite all this propaganda there was a serious incident on a train in peak hour a few months ago where a fight spilled out onto a platform and several trains were delayed. Big news here when several trains at peak hour = thousands and thousands of people.